Three alleged bandits on Wednesday were indicted on armed robbery charges in the Jan. 20 holdup of a local Burger King restaurant.

Sequoia T. Carter, 20, of Riverdale; Stephanie G. Strait, 36, of a Price Street address, and Roy Lewis Larkin Jr., 20, of Laurel Green Court, used the “handle portion of a handgun” to steal property of the restaurant at 4268 Ogeechee Road, the Chatham County grand jury found.

Patrol officers were alerted to the robbery and arrived in the front and rear of the restaurant as the three suspects were driving away in a red Saturn, police reported. Passersby pointed out the car and its location. Police followed the car until it stopped behind a nearby business and took the suspects into custody.

An undisclosed sum and a weapon were recovered, police said.

Larkin was identified as the gunman who walked into the business and robbed it, police said. Carter was an employee of the restaurant, and Strait drove the getaway vehicle, police said.

In addition to the armed robbery charge against all three, the two-count indictment obtained by Assistant District Attorney David Rhoden included a count against Larkin for possession of a firearm — a “handgun, a black semi-automatic replica type pistol” — during the commission of a felony.